Re: Coding

Thomas, excellent thoughts and I agree! Although Linux may be good, it is
not the way for the basic user, ie, the user who is out there to surf and
enjoy what the web has to offer.  My kids would not even begin to know what
to do with a Linux based machine. ( I do have a lot of Perl running my
Machine, and have been jointly working on a Browser) But things take time,
and the vast majority of "everyday users" are enjoyin MS, because it is easy
to learn, and they really do not care about technical mumbo jumbo.
I do admit that I am at a loss with Netscape, i cannot code for beans to
make it "look great" only decent, and that is effort.
I understand that you are into your Linux, as I am into MSIE, but let's not
go overboard!
----- Original Message -----
From: "SGT Thomas Fisher" <raidermp(at)CLDS.NET>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:07 AM
Subject: RE: Coding


| But why count out and try to avoid MS?  Even though Linux is making
headway
| into the market, how many years do you really think it will take for
people
| to start using it as a majority?
|
| >>i find someone else with a little sense who can provide what i need. <<
|
| Do you really think that the software companies out there are making all
| their programs to run on Linux?   So does that mean that you use MS for
| certain things since you may need to run a program that only is made for
| Windows?    That is my main concern about switching over to Linux.  I may
| run it as a secondary system, but I will refuse to use it on as my main
| system until software companies actually start making most of the software
| that I want for it.
| Linux may be the future, but to most of the experts in the field that
future
| is too far off until the above condition is met.  So even though you may
| *hate* MS, you have quite a few years yet until you will be able to count
| them out.
| Your comment about using a program to think for you is slightly off cue
too.
| Why limit it only to people using MS products?  Does that mean that people
| using Linux couldn't try to take the easy way out and say, use a WYSIWYG
| editor without learning how to code first?  No matter what system or
| software you use, there will always be people out there that think that
they
| can do everything in the world without learning the basics.
| And why can't you make your page to fit EVERY browser?  To me, and I'm
sure
| many others here, that is the right way.  You would avoid the problem of
| needing to put the "best if viewed using IE/NN/etc." on your page if you
did
| that in the first place...  (you, being the developer here, not any one
| person)
|
| Thomas
|

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